Tony Dungy Quotes

There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.

It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.

I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.

I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.

Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.